What it means.

Age Friendly Sausalito is addressing the shortage of affordable housing by promoting Home Sharing and hosting Leslie Klor of ESC in a series of workshops.

Accessible Housing

Creating age friendly materials in cooperation with the Building and Planning Department as well as Housing Modification workshops will help to address issues of accessibility.

Transportation

Age Friendly is partnering with Sausalito Village to provide a new senior transportation program to address the gap of services throughout the hills of town. $15,000 in seed funding was granted by Marin Transit. Visit our new web site for 'Call A Ride for Sausalito Seniors' (CARSS):

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Three Year Plan of Action

​Marin Community Foundation and the Marin Board of Supervisors have granted Age Friendly Sausalito funding to hire professional assistance in completing the 3 Year Plan of Action required by WHO.

Questionnaires were mailed and made available on-line through this web site the first week of November 2013. Additional questionnaires were available at the Library, the Police Station and Bridgeway Gym. 2,400 questionnaires were mailed out and 1,190 responses were received by December 31st. We are delighted with the response.

Completed questionnaires helped to provide critical information towards a baseline assessment of the City's age friendliness. In addition to analyzing the survey data, Task Force members have interviewed key stakeholders and reviewed relevant research. Projects in response to the top three priorities are currently underway: Affordable Housing, Accessible Housing and Transportation.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an age-friendly city as one that is inclusive and accessible and promotes active aging. A town that works for EVERYONE of every age and ability.

Sausalito has one of the fastest aging populations in the County. Did you know that between the 2000 and 2010 census, the number of residents aged 60 and over, increased by a staggering 72%!!

​In July of 2013, the City Council created the Age-Friendly Sausalito Task Force in response to this issue. The purpose of the Task Force is to assess the current age-friendliness of the City and to develop a strategic plan to move it forward in a way that will be inclusive and accessible to everyone. In short, make it a community that works for all.

This commitment was rewarded by the World Health Organization in March 2014 when the City of Sausalito became a member of the WHO Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities - the first in Marin and third in the State.